Liverpool Lou

Only the major ones like USD, British pound and not every country in the world. Do restaurants in the USA accept currencies in Lao Kip or Vietnamese Dong? I doubt so. So you reckon that restaurants in Thailand generally accept USD and GBP? I doubt it. "Do restaurants in the USA accept currencies in Lao Kip or Vietnamese Dong? I doubt so". I didn't suggest that they do, I was questioning your post!

Yeuk...

You do know that you don't have to cover the entire body with deodorant, just the armpits? "Never understood the use of deodorant". It stops you smelling bad.

02 017 8399, let the Thai announcement finish then press 9 for English, as the automated call instructs. Or just hit 9 as soon as the call is answered by the system.

There is if you press '9' for English.

Unbelievable. You tell us all how easy it is but you have not actually done it. You asked me how it works, I told you. What makes you suggest that it may not be easy when you have not actually done it? Unbelievable.

There is incentive to claim that something is wrongly classified. All that lovely reward money - it is what they are looking for. Really? What incentive do Customs officers get for over-assessing the value of an item bought online and delivered by DHL, or the like?

Give it a rest, you are like a broken record with this. For you benefit: Many of us throw documentation that is no longer needed away, same with other things. Is you house full to the ceiling with old receipts from Thai Customs and also Foodland and Robinson? "Give it a rest...". No, why should I "give it a rest"? I'm responding to comments to me on the forum; to quote you, why don't you "give it a rest"? "Many of us throw documentation that is no longer needed away" Seems that every single complainer of chronic courier gouging, without exception, throws away that documentation. You'd think that at least one of them would have taken a photo of the receipt considering how many times it allegedly happens to so many different individuals! "Is you house full to the ceiling with old receipts from Thai Customs and also Foodland and Robinson?" No, but then I do not have any complaints about those places. If i did, I would have photos of the receipts confirming the gouging, though.

But thats how it works, Customs can set their own valuation in just about any country. Thankfully, the valuation, obviously, need to be reasonable. It is of no benefit to a Customs officer to over-value an item just for the hell of it.

No, I paid the duty and VAT as assessed by the post office. The call centre confirmed that the rate applied was correct.

You need "to correct another error", there is no such statue.

You could enjoy a night in jail - the customer on Koh Chang did. Most Thais can't take criticism You must be referring to the customer who admitted he was wrong and later apologised profusely for inaccurately representing what happened.

No different from when you do that at home! Seriously, how would you know whether the "table setter" had been for a dump or washed their hands?

Restaurants in Thailand generally accept foreign currencies as payment? Really?

They could probably recognise a vaccination certificate for what it is, though, if they're in that position, by the words "Covid-19 Vaccination Certificate". That's all they'd need to know, they don't need, nor will they have to verify certificates issued in other countries, how could they do that?

So if you live in Bangkok you have to travel to Samut Prakaan after waiting a minimum 2 weeks for assessment? Not exactly a 'snip' is it? You have actually done this yourself and are speaking from experience, right? You just say "please can I have a reassessment" at the Post office and a well oiled machine springs into action? It does not say "a minimum of two weeks" does it? I queried the assessment on a watch sent in through the post on which the local post office assessed duty and VAT. I spoke to the Customs Dept call centre and was advised of the procedure to appeal the assessment which involves collecting the item from whichever Customs office you're dealing with. "You just say "please can I have a reassessment" at the Post office...?" Yes, there's an appeal form to be completed and that and the item is sent to Customs for assessment. Customs HQ is in Khlong Toei so I would imagine that's where you'd have to go.

Before the attacks commence, I am not saying that he did not do it but, in response to your post, was he was caught on video raping her? Didn't see that video, is there a link? Or he was caught doing nothing but sitting down waiting in reception?

Kindly explain the procedure and the time this takes - there is a notice up in Phrakanong post office saying this takes 2 weeks. The procedure is that you ask for a reassessment, either at the Post Office or through the courier, whichever is delivering the item. After reassessment the item has to be collected from Customs Dept.

Why would declared bullion be confiscated? If an import licence permitting its import isn't held, bullion will be returned on departure.

So what is your problem with that? Seems perfectly reasonable not to spend a day at Customs for a few hundred baht but to warn others of the unpredictable nature of Customs charges. If you are going too tell us all again how they only ever apply the correct duty, DON'T. I did not say that "they always apply the correct duty", I said that the duty applied is not up to them and that corrupt applications of duty that so many are complaining about are easily remedied and evidenced. Import duty rates applied by couriers on items being sent into Thailand is all I am talking about, as per the OP, and those rates are defined by the Customs Dept, they are not "unpredictable", they are laid down in the regulations and if they're wrongly applied they can be corrected by asking for a reassessment. That is what I am saying. If you're saying that I'm saying anything else, DONT.

You said they were "personal electronics" previously. No, I did not, that was TallGuyJohnIn BKK who used that phrase.

I don't consider it worth my while to spend time doing this if it is a few hundred baht, also, and maybe this has changed, but it used to be that you could query the the duty but ONLY with the Customs dept that applied it and with no third party arbitration and if they found against you you were fined FIVE TIMES the duty charged and it is now a fine levied by the Govt, not duty you can refuse to pay but lose the item. Perhaps all the others who are complaining so strongly about courier company corruption didn't think it was worth the bother either but they did feel strongly enough about it to make allegations here constantly! "it used to be that you could query the the duty but ONLY with the Customs dept that applied it and with no third party arbitration and if they found against you you were fined FIVE TIMES the duty charged" That's still the case, Customs decides whether the correct rate has been used, not the couriers. If the correct duty was applied the duty stands, you are not subject to a fine, never mind a 5X value fine, for requesting reassessment, even if the duty was correct. You cannot be seriously suggesting that a reassessment that goes against you means you get fined five times the items value just for asking! Maybe you're referring to fines for under-declaring an item's value which is a fineable offence.

You said they were "personal electronics" previously. No, I didn't, I was quoting someone else* who referred to "personal electronics". * TallGuyJohnInBKK, not me.

I was referring to the time when what you got from DHL/FEDex/UPS was just the customs agent paperwork and no official customs paperwork like now. I am commenting on the specifics of the OP currently.

I think it is far more likely to come under the duty exempt Heading 8741 for computer parts than personal electronics. Laptop computers, specifically, are zero-rated, products that are not laptop computers, such as electronics, do not fall into the laptop computer category.